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TechnologyDNA DayGenome AssemblyGenomicsQ&ABiological Sciences
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Today is International DNA Day, commemorating the day in 1953 when Crick, Watson, Wilkins and Franklin published their papers on the structure of DNA. Fifty years later, with the declaration that the human genome project was close to completion the US Senate and the House of Representatives declared that 25 th April 2003 would be the first DNA Day, and ever since many (including ourselves through many blogs) have commemorated the date.

TechnologyCycloneSeqDNA DayGenomicsMicrobial GenomicsBiological Sciences
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As another DNA Day treat GigaByte today publishes new benchmark data and analysis of the new CycloneSEQ platform, a novel sequencing technology using nanopores that demonstrates here the ability to sequence complete bacterial genomes. Getting our hands on a CycloneSeq sequencer Following on from the recent official launch of BGI’s new CycloneSEQ single-molecule sequencer the new Data Release published today in GigaByte presents

PublishingBiocurationConferencesGigaDBGSCBiological Sciences
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The Biocuration 2025 meeting held in Kansas City USA at the Stowers Institute (April 5-9) was a well organized blend of in-person and virtual participants. As regular attendees and International Society of Biocuration (ISB) members (see previous reports) GigaScience Press was represented by two members of the GigaDB team, Chris Hunter and Bastien Molcrette.

TechnologyAICassyniDiseasesMachine LearningBiological Sciences
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Published today in GigaScience is a new algorithm connecting social and biological networks to identify key proteins in Human Health. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a machine-learning algorithm that could enhance our understanding of human biology and disease.

HealthCassyniData PublicationDisease VectorGBIFBiological Sciences
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Regular readers will have heard the news that TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, GBIF and GigaScience Press have announced a third call for authors to submit Data Release papers on vectors of human disease for inclusion in a thematic series published in GigaByte Journal.

Open AccessBiocurationConferencesCurationFAIRBiological Sciences
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Mary Ann Tuli and Bastien Molcrette provide a write up of IDCC25 at The Hague. This deliberately provocative phrase, uttered by a conference participant, sums up the challenge of preserving scientific data: to make useful information available to those, present and future, who are best placed to use it to its full potential.

BiologyAnimal GenomicsBird GenomicsConservation GenomicsEndangered SpeciesBiological Sciences
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A new genomic analysis of the blue peafowl and its endangered green sister species provides insights into unwanted hybridization between these closely related birds, which may pose a risk to conservation efforts. The authors of a new GigaScience article also show

BiologyConservation BiologyExtinctionGenomicsMammalBiological Sciences
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Today is World Pangolin Day!  To celebrate the occasion GigaScience presents a new article, adding two chromosome-scale genome sequences and in-depth genomic analyses. Pangolins are cute, but the reason why it’s important to draw regular attention to these scaly mammals is more sober: Pangolins are the most trafficked wild mammals in the world, with more than 900,000 poached in the past two decades.